Windows 8 snapped view and SharePoint 2013

I'm just returning back to share with you 1 year of ideas 🙂 It is the right time, just with SharePoint Server 2013,Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 out there (and many many new things).

As I was working in SharePoint Server 2013 using the IE App on Windows 8, I realized that snapped view is really useful to interact between apps or to do some multithreaded work ;). Just to mention the most common, in order to drag and drop files ¡you need it!. Ifyou testit, you will discoverthat its useis cumbersome, as the full page is auto-scaled. You can read more info in the IE Blog: Adapting Your Site to Different Window Sizes, and an example is shown in the screenshot below:

Reviewing one of my posts about media queries, I did a quick test, in order to improve the experience with snapped view mode. I added a reference to a custom css, with

@media screen and (max-width: 400px) {

@-ms-viewport {width: 400px;}

#sideNavBox {display:none;}

#mysite-titlerow {display:none;}

#contentBox {margin-left:10px;min-width:200px;}

#fullscreenmodebox {display:none;}

#onetidDoclibViewTbl0 th:nth-child(5){display:none;}

#onetidDoclibViewTbl0 th:nth-child(6){display:none;}

#onetidDoclibViewTbl0 th:nth-child(7){display:none;}

#onetidDoclibViewTbl0 td:nth-child(5){display:none;}

#onetidDoclibViewTbl0 td:nth-child(6){display:none;}

#onetidDoclibViewTbl0 td:nth-child(7){display:none;}

}

to remove title, leftnav and OOB columns in the list view (this test was done with a document library and default behaviour). Then you can see the experience is a bit different 🙂

a large image to see differences:

Maybe in the future we have this sort of behaviour OOB in SharePoint, but you should think about it when you customize, configure or build your Apps.